Congratulations to our most recent graduate degree recipients

Sept. 3, 2026
McKenzie Meza, Communications Specialist
Degree recipients 2026

We congratulate and recognize all of our most recent graduate degree recipients. Find a list of thesis titles and dissertations below from students who graduated in Spring or Summer of 2026.

Doctoral Degrees

Jeffry Chapman Howard: Epsilon Dichotomy for Twisted Linear Models

Advisor: Hang Xue

Employer: The Gregory School - Upperschool Math Teacher

 

Samuel Herring: Stability of One-Dimensional Gapped Quantum Spin Systems

Advisor: Bob Sims

Employer: University of Arizona Department of Mathematics - Instructor

 

Marcel Hudiani: Singular Diffusion Limit of Tagged Particle Dynamics in a 1-dimensional Zero Range Process with Sinai-type Medium and the Convergence Rate for the Last Iterate of Stochastic Gradient Descent Schemes

Advisor: Sunder Sethuraman

 

Quinton Aboud: Integrability of pentagram maps in higher dimensions.

Advisor: Anton Izosimov

 

Zhixuan Zhang: Pattern-Forming Partial Differential Equations and Optimal Point Configurations

Advisor: Patrick Shipman

Employer: PGIM, Inc. - Data Scientist.

Master's Degrees

Alexis Vizzerra

Advisor: Shankar Venkataramani

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